“It’s pretty full-on trying to represent all those years of one’s life in a two-hour performance,” the Dame explains.

“But we manage to go right through the card, from when I started singing with my family as a little girl.

“It’s been a big project to pull together and when I started working on this show two years ago I had an awful lot of cutting and pasting to do, to try and fit everything in.”

In between numbers, the internationally-acclaimed star also tells stories about the people she’s met, including presidents and VIPs, and highlights some of the amusing things that have happened on the road down the years.

“I talk about my clothing that’s fallen off on stage and plenty of other things that have gone wrong.”

The Hamilton-born Dame says she’s also gone out of her way to take in smaller towns and venues on her latest “heartland” string of dates.

“I have deliberately toured the rural areas because I grew up in a rural community and it was the people from those regions that gave me a lot of support in my early days.

“People would travel to my concerts in busloads and the halls were always full.”